Tom Dotan (guest, journalist)
15:11Larry Ellison now owns about 40% of Oracle, up from the mid-20s a decade ago, after Oracle's stock buybacks.
ORCL novelty 1/3 · verifiable 2/3 Tom Dotan (guest, journalist)
42:22Oracle has been turned cash-flow negative by debt-funded capex for AI data centers, and it owns 15% of TikTok.
ORCL novelty 1/3 · verifiable 2/3 A planned Ellison sale of about $7B of Oracle shares was pulled back within a day, and he is instead taking another margin loan against the shares.
ORCL novelty 1/3 · verifiable 2/3 Oracle has done about $190B or more of stock buybacks since inception.
ORCL novelty 0/3 · verifiable 2/3 guest analyst (SemiAnalysis)
13:47Oracle's New Mexico campus has over a gigawatt of IT capacity under construction, but SemiAnalysis assumes a slow ramp because of power delivery problems, so little counts in 2027.
ORCL novelty 3/3 · verifiable 2/3